(20) Took the Verdi at La Plata at noon. K.B. took me to the station. The docks at La Plata are situated well inland on long channels. All afternoon we loaded carcasses of beef and did not get away until 4 P.M. The night was clear + moonlight, and the journey across the La Plata was choppy but not rough. The water lower was muddy to some color as fish bone. Reached Montevideo at 8 A.M. (21) The harbor of Montevideo is well protected by break- waters + of large size. There on anchorage the city extends in a half circle around the whole shore-line. A low hill crowned by a fort at the land side of the city is a prominent feature of the landscape. Went ashore at 11 A.M. with Berry + Brown.